force slide rule?

[jicecone]

First of all, I do not know of ANY league that has a MUST SLIDE rule. Most rules say avoid or slide, and if you slide that there is criteria that needs to be adhereed to, to make it legal.

Having said that there is no way we can know exactly what took place at your son's game. Did the catcher jump up into the path of the runner? Did the runner try to take the catchers legs out? Was it just incidental contact and they were both doing what they were supposed to?

It is logical that if the runner was NOT avoiding the catcher that he would collide with his legs rather than his midsection, because the catcher jumped. If that was the case then I agree with the call.

Ask your son, what his intentions were?